Musical toy telephone



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E. BOCCHINO MUSICAL TOY TELEPHONE Filed Feb. 24. 1926 INVENTQR RNEY ixed on the PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST BOCGHIN'O, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

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Application filed February 24, 1926. Serial No. 90,240.

This invention relates to toys, particularly to types of a-musical nature combined with other attractive features.

It is one of the objects of the invention to provide a toy simulative in appearance to a telephone instrument of the usual type, having concealed in its base a phonograph, the sounds produced by which are projected into the atmosphere through the pseudo transmitter of the telephone upon raising the pseudo receiver from its hook.

A further feature is in the provision of means for actuating the phonograph consisting of a spring motor, wound from the under side of the base and held inoperative by the weight of the pseudo receiver until manually released.

Another aim is to produce a chambered base having a hinged upper portion render ing the record disc readily accessible for substitution, inspection and the like.

It is another object to provide a lamp at the mouth of the pseudo receiver operated by a battery therein automatically energized by raising the pseudo receiver, coincidently with releasing the phonograph motor.

A still further purpose is to produce a de vice that in addition to its features of mere amusement and divertisement, may be used as an educational device in a particularlyelfective manner by a suitable selection of records.

These several features are secured by the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and shown in the annexed drawing, forming a component hereof, and in whic Figure 1 is a partial longitudinal sectional, partial side elevational view of an embodiment? ofthe invention showing the parts at rest.

Fi ure 2 1s a fra mentar transverse sectional view taken substantially on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

As shown in the drawings the toy consists of a circular wooden base 5 having a central opening 6 in which is fixed a spring driven motor 7 provided with a pivoted winding 8 and .havin a central upright shaft 9. ase 5 is afmetal plate 10, bent at one point to form a hinge eye 11 engaging a pin 12 fast in the bevelled lower corner of a hollow pedestal 13, having an inreaching annular flange 14.- normally seated on the plate 10, to which it is held by a spring clip 15 opposite the hinge.

A tubular standard 16 rises from the flat top of the pedestal 13, which is open to the standard except for a spider plate 17 near the top of the 'standard is a laterally extending hollow projection 18, having an expanded trumpet shaped mouth 19, representing a conventional telephone mitter.

The numeral 20 designates similarly a pseudo receiver, attached by a flexible cord 21 anchored in thepedestal 13, and normally supported between the arms of a fork 22, its shank portions 23 being united by a rivet 2a and pivoted on a pin 25 set in lugs 26 extending outwardly from the standard 16. I

Formed on the inner end of the fork shank is an inreaching finger 27 engaging the lower side of a like finger 28 formed on a lever 29 pivoted on a pin 30 set in the wall of the standard 10; the lever 29 may be forked to embrace a rod 31 andhas a slot 32 through which passes a pin 33 set transverselyin the upper part of the rod 31.

Said rod is guided by the plate 17 and raised by an encircling compression spring 34: resting on the plate and pressing against a collar 35 fixed on the rod, the effect of the spring being to raise the rod when the pseudo receiver is disengaged from the hook 22.

At the lower end of the rod is an enlargement containing a socket 36, conical 0r Otherwise, to positively engage the end of the shaft 9, when the rod is in a lowered position, due to the weight of the pseudo receiver, thus controlling the action of the spring motor.

Fixed rigidly on the Shaft 9' is a turntable 37 covered with the usual fabric 38, on which is seated a circular disc record 39, the same being rendered accessible by tipping the pedestal on its hinge.

A reproducing device, generically denoted by the numeral 40, is provided with a horn 41 dischargin into the chamber 13 and thence throug the standard 16 and elerments 18, 19 into the atmosphere.

The reproducer is carried on an arm 42 loosely pivotedon a bracket 43 fixed on the interior of the pedestal; in order to reset and. adjust the reproducer an opening 44' is formed through'the wall of the pedestal, adjacent the bracket, to permit entrance of an operators finger. I

Set in the outer end of the pseudo repseudo transceiver 20 is a reflector 45, through which a v small electric light bulb 46 extends, the same being in contact with one pole of an electric current generated by a battery 47, pressed into engagement by a coiled expansive spring 48 in the opposite end of the pseudo receiver.

The other pole of the lamp is in contact with the reflector 45 and through the wall of the pseudo receiver conducts current to one element of a spring switch 49 when the same is in contact with the wall, this spring being in constant contact with the other pole of the battery.

The element 49 is insulated from the casing of the pseudo receiver by a strip of dielectric material 50 and secured to its up per free end is a wedge shaped block 51 of insulating material, held in contact with the fork stem 23 when the pseudo receiver is resting on the fork, but upon raising and removing the receiver, the spring &9 moves outwardly to contact with the pseudo receiver wall, thus placing the battery in circuit with the lamp and causing the same to low.

g It is further to be noted that the device may be used in recording a record by the use of a suitable stylus, sound entering the element 19 being delivered to the reproducer trumpet 41 causing actuation of the stylus upon a blank record.

While certain preferred embodiments of this device have been shown and described,it will be understood that changes in the form, arrangements, proportions, sizes and details thereof may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A toy of the class described comprising a hollow casing resembling the base, standard and transmitter of a telephone instrument, a block on which said casing is hinged,

Lee-Laos records actuated by raising and lowering said pseudo receiver, to control the stopping and starting of said phonograph.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a hollow casing resembling a conventional telephone instrument, means on the casing for supporting an object resembling a telephone receiver, a motor driven record carrying turntable in the base of said casing, a sound box and tone arm pivoted in said base, said box carrying a stylus operable in connection with a record on said turntable, and means for stopping and starting the turntable, said means being controlled by raising and lowering the telephone pseudo receiver.

3. A device of the class described, comprising a hollow casing resembling a conventional telephone instrument and base, means on the casing for supporting an object resembling a-telephone receiver, a motor driven record carrying turntable in the base 01": said casing, a sound box and horn pivot-ed in said base, said box carrying a stylus operable in connection with a record on said turntable, means whereby the casing may be swung to open or closed position relative to the base, and means controlled by the pseudo telephone receiver to start and stop said turntable.

4. A device of the class described, comprising a hollow casing resembling a conventional telephone instrument, a base and pseudo transmitter, said transmitter having an unobstructed opening from its mouth to the inside of the casing, means on the casing for supporting an object resembling a telephone receiver, a motor driven record carrymg turntable in the base of saidcasing, a sound box and horn pivoted in said base. said box carrying a stylus operable in connection with a record on said turntable, the open end of the horn being positioned so as to direct sound waves into the interior of said casing and through said pseudo transmitter to the atmosphere and means controlled by the pseudo telephone receiver to start and stop said turntable.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ERNEST BOCCHINO. 

